Google Fiber spreads again, confirmed for Gladstone, MO

Sweet, sweet, Gigabit speed is coming to more locations, but probably not yours.

Google Fiber's first rollout was in Kansas City, Kansas, and it has since been confirmed for the likes of Austin, TX, and Provo, UT. It's now hitting a new city, Gladstone, MO, which is adjacent to Kansas City.

"Recently, we’ve welcomed a handful of new Kansas City-area Google Fiber communities—and tonight we get to welcome yet another. The Gladstone, Missouri City Council just voted to bring Fiber to their city, too," Google Fiber Community Manager Rachel Hack wrote on the project blog yesterday. "As we’ve said before, it takes a while to plan, engineer, and start building our network in new communities, so it will still be some time before we can hook up our Gladstone customers."

As you can see in the map on the right, Gladstone could be viewed as an expansion of the existing Kansas City deployment.

Google Fiber brings Gigabit Internet to customers for $70 a month or 5Mbps service for a $300 one-time charge with no monthly fee. Most of you will probably have to keep your sub-Gigabit Internet service for a while longer, as analysts have calculated that nationwide Google Fiber would cost $11 billion a year.